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How Slow Motion Became Cinema’s Dominant Special Effect

The turbulent late ’60s saw the technique’s popularity explode—and it’s been helping moviemakers (and literary artists) engage with the unsettling tempos of modern life ever since.

By Scott W. Stern

 

The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp

The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.

By Melissa Gira Grant

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The WNBA Is a Perfectly Choreographed TV Drama

Women’s basketball is bigger than it’s ever been on television, and the player’s association is taking advantage of the spotlight to tell a gripping story about labor.

By Phillip Maciak

 

How Religious Pluralism Lost at the Supreme Court

The conservative justices’ ruling in a case involving LGBTQ-themed books in public schools is likely to benefit larger religious groups and ostracize smaller ones.

By Matt Ford

 
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Bill Moyers Had Three Careers and Excelled at Every One of Them

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Inside the Predatory World of Multilevel Marketing

Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?

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Why America Got a Warfare State, Not a Welfare State

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When Donald Trump won the presidency the first time, liberal internationalists set out to rethink their doctrines. Hillary Clinton’s aide Jake Sullivan commented that he had “the humility of the defeated,” and a few years later, as Joe Biden’s national security adviser, he developed the slogan of a “foreign policy for the middle class.” Breaking with decades of neoliberalism, the new creed would give up the illusion that the social contract and national security were separate. The main question in foreign policy isn’t just whether the government keeps people safe from enemies. Globalization “had frayed the socioeconomic foundations on which any strong and resilient democracy rests,” Sullivan said. A new national security outlook for the world would incorporate economic security at home as its chief goal.

 

The Obscene Wealth Issue

To count to one million without stopping takes 11 days. To count to one billion takes nearly 32 years. To count Elon Musk’s fortune would take more than 13,000 years. Who needs that much money?

By Michael Tomasky

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